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how to determine SID
Posted by jg on March 4th, 2006


how to determine the SID of an XP Pro user ?

I need to fix up /customize his profile from admin. If I know the SID I can
use script to set his user shell under hkey_users without logging in his
ID. even make changes the user can't make


Posted by Carey Frisch [MVP] on March 5th, 2006


PsGetSid
http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/psgetsid.html

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"jg" wrote:

| how to determine the SID of an XP Pro user ?
|
| I need to fix up /customize his profile from admin. If I know the SID I can
| use script to set his user shell under hkey_users without logging in his
| ID. even make changes the user can't make

Posted by Wesley Vogel on March 5th, 2006


Lists the SIDs for all the user accounts and places SID.txt on the Desktop.

SIDList.vbs
Lists the SIDs for all the user accounts
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/reg/SIDList.vbs

from...
List of utilities available in this site
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/utils/

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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